Cindy Crawford’s opinion on Vogue’s Health Initiative
The Health Initiative is a pact between 19 international Vogue editors to help promoting a “healthy body image”. Cindy Crawford, one of the world’s most acknowledged models, came right from the super era when ideal bodies were more athletic than extremely slender. Despite thinking Vogue’s initiative is “great”, she attributes to consumers the ultimate power to modify what the media impose as ideal beauty standards.
So, in Cindy’s opinion “the fashion industry is in the consumers’ hands, because, if they buy into it, nothing will change. If consumers don’t like it that models are too skinny, or too young, and they don’t buy the magazines, then believe me, then the magazines will have to change”.
And, when asked what she sees as being today’s young models biggest problems, she answered taking her own experience into account: “You know, I don’t know. I’m not still in the trenches right now. But, if you make too many rules – like: ‘You can’t work this many hours’ – it doesn’t work, because sometimes you have to. Sometimes you have to get up early or be prepared to do the job in the freezing cold”. Adding a piece of advice to her speech, she concluded: “I think that, again though, models have to have a voice and speak up for themselves, every day, on the job. People have to respect each other. And if you’re working with someone who doesn’t respect you, then leave”.
Source: Vogue.co.uk.
